Improvement in gong-bells



j tlnitd LEGRAND S. CARPENTER, OF EAST HAMPTON, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 89,024, dated April 20, 1869.l

mrpncvnMENT 1N Gone-Bums.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Toall whom it 'may concern Be it known that I, LEGRAND S. CARPENTER, of East Hampton, iu the county of Middlesex, and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gong-Bells; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,`clear, and exact description thereof, whereby a person skilled iu the art can make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Like letters in the figures indicate the same parts.

Figure l is a side view. of my improved bell, showing the striking mechanism. Y

Figure 2 is a top view, with the bell removed to show the'striking mechanism better.

The position of the rim of the bell is shown in dotted lines.

Ais the plate, to which the several parts are -at tached.

Bis the bell.

C l) is a bent lever, working on the pivot c, to'oue end, C, of which the pull-wire J is attached.

fIfhe arm D has the pin d upon it, which serves as au axis for the wire F, forming the stem of the hammer E.

This wire is bent round the pin d, and'passes through a hole, h, in the bridge H H, in which there is but little more than suicient room for the wire to play, thus xing the position of that end of the wire F.

The bridge H passes over the end of the lever D, to hold it in place, but allows it sufcient play laterally. The redand black lines in iig. 2 show the two extreme positions of thelever and hammer.

G is a spring, coiled around the centre post K, which sustains the bell, and is attached to the lever D, to

draw it forcibly back into the position shown by the black lines.

I is a stop-wire, bent into a loop for the purpose of regulating the motion of. the wire F in one direction,

to fix the position of the hammer.

The hammer is so adjusted as to nearly but not quite touch the bell, so that after each blow, the elasticity of the-wire F will raise it and allow the bell to ring freely.

This position of the hammer is regulated by bending the wire F when in the position shown by the red lines, until the'hammer is in the proper position for striking on that side of the bell. The hammer is then placed in the position shown by the black lines, and adjusted by bending the wire loop I.

The operation of my invention is as follows:v

When the wire J is pulled, the lever O D is drawn into the position shown by the red lines, and the hammer-strikes the bell on that side. On releasing the wire J, the spring G draws the lever forcibly back, and the hammer strikes on the other side,'as shown by the black lines, thus giving a. double stroke.

Claim.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination and arrangement of the lever O D, the hammer-,wire F, and the bridge H, to form' a, double-striking mechanism, substantially as herein dcscribed, and-in combination with the lever, the hammer-wire, and bridge, the regulating stop-wire I, and the aperture h, for the purpose of regulating the position of the hammer, substantially as herein described.

LEGRAND'S; CARPENTER.

Witnesses:

HENRY SKINNER, STEPHEN R. DEMAX. 

